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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers

Ignorance, America, Few

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

God, Spiritual, Nothing

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Louisa May Alcott

Good, Friends, Few

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison

Friendship, Happiness, True

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.
Russell Crowe

Give, Insecure, Away

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
Donald Rumsfeld

Best, Help, Give

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
Olof Palme

Society, Democracy, Group

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Cyril Connolly

Happy, Passion, Illusion

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca

Life, Death, House

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
Franz Boas

Present, Mankind, Third

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
Dan Quayle

Republican, Party, Clear

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor

Together, Thoughts, Company

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Henry Adams

Read, Whether, Influence

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'
Neale Donald Walsch

Time, Experience, Small

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
Herodotus

Men, Best, Someone

When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels.
Bryan Cranston

Few, Situation, Kid

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.
Jeffrey Kluger

Fear, Alone, Deep

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.
Sean Connery

Playing, Material, Realistic

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
Karl Rove

Different, Perfect, United

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Understand, Find, Word

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
Jose Saramago

Work, Travel, Able

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
Naguib Mahfouz

Thought, Writer, Surprised

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
Wislawa Szymborska

May, Place, Group

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Allen Ginsberg

Art, Small, Living

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.
Diana Ross

Life, Heart, Through

Sometimes these challenges naturally select more chefs that can think on their feet very quickly. There are chefs I know who won't put things on the menu unless they've tried it four or five times. So you just naturally select a certain kind of chef, people who maybe don't win a bunch of challenges but they hang around.
Tom Colicchio

Win, Put, Sometimes

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.
James Dobson

Work, God, Nation

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.
Paul Rand

Job, Words, Together

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Different, Living, Action

I never know if a song's going to be popular so I don't select them with that in mind. All I can do is follow my heart and my gut and go for songs that make me feel great.
Nicole Scherzinger

Great, Mind, Heart

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